Assessment of fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis (by functional assessment of chronic illness therapy-fatigue score) and its relation to disease activity and Anemia

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 87-90

  Singh, Harpreet ^a   Arya, Suvrat ^a   Talapatra, Paulomi ^b   Lather, Kunal ^a   Mathur, Rekha ^a   Singhania, Amit ^a   Chaudhary, Vikas ^a  

^a Departments of Medicine Rohtak   (India)

^b POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

anemia; disease activity; fatigue; rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; COMORBIDITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896718570     PISSN: 10761608     EISSN: 15367355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RHU.0000000000000073     Document Type: Article

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